1 Bicycle per Person (1BpP)

What is 1 BpP ?

One Bicycle per Person (1BpP) is a community of passionate people which addresses the tremendous unmet need for affordable bicycles at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP).

Today, there are more than one billion bicycles in use globally. And since 2001, more than 100 million bicycles have been manufactured annually. That's double the production of 25 years ago, growing more than twice as fast as global population. But while perhaps half these bicycles are in mainland China, where they have been key to rapid development, most of the rest are in developed nations. 

1 BpP shares the same dream of ending extreme poverty. Social enterprise empowers that dream with a plan of action: applying market-based strategies to achieve a social purpose. And the simple and proven strategy is the use of entrepreneurial approaches - using business smarts to add value to the value chain where it will do the most good. Affordable personal transportation adds value to every social enterprise's value chain, and each of us can help right now to meet this urgent need by adding our acumen to the 1BpP value web. Together, we will do well by doing even better.